Lependorf + Shire

The foundation for our work is the photographic image with the optimal quality of light. Selecting the interplay of composition, form, rhythm, and line is the focus for our imagery. Integrating these elements in the computer is the next stage in the process of merging our visual and intuitive sensibilities toward a completed vision.

Different perceptual effects arise from recording the world in photographs as opposed to interpreting it in paint: Our goal is not to emulate painting.

Conceptual work in all mediums has blurred the line between photographers who make art and artists who use photography.

The digital medium has established itself in the natural continuum of art history and the ongoing relationship of art with technology. This work forces us to consider a more serene world while reminding us that no contemporary experience is unmediated; technology touches everything. The use of the computer as a tool does not create; it assists creativity resulting in a synthesis of disciplines to be realized as a limited edition.

The combination of archival pigment inks on Crane Fine Art paper framed with archival mattes and backboards insures permanence in excess of 175 years.

The creative process will always remain in the mind and the soul of the artist.

Resume

Stan Shire is Professor Emeritus and former chair of the Photographic Imaging department at Community College of Philadelphia.

He has a BFA degree in Photography and Film from the Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts) and a Masters degree in Education from Arcadia University. He has studied with Ansel Adams, Ray K. Metzker, Ron Rosenstock, Bert Monroy and John Paul Caponigro.

With Adobe Expert Certification in Photoshop, Stan is the author of “HandsOn Photoshop CS5: Tutorial Workshops.” in print and as an iPad app.

His work is in the Mamiya Masters of the Medium Gallery (U.K.), Museo Hollander (Fuengirola, Spain), Blue Cross – Corporate Headquarters, Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, and in other private and corporate collections.

Since 2002, Stan has worked in collaboration with painter and printmaker Shelly Lependorf. Their work has been shown in numerous galleries and is represented in many corporate and private collections.

1962 Bocour Award for Excellence in Painting, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Education

1986 Philadelphia Studio School of Art and Design, Certificate in Graphics, Philadelphia, PA

1964 University of the Arts, (Philadelphia College of Art). Full scholarship recipient, Philadelphia, PA

Collections

Intercontinental Times Square Hotel, Lobby

1875 Hotel, Washington, DC

AAA Mid Atlantic Headquarters, Wilmington, DE

ARCO (Atlantic Richfield Co.), Collection, Philadelphia, PA

Astra Merck Pharmaceuticals, Paoli, PA

Astra Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, Wayne, PA

Bell Atlantic Corporation, Philadelphia, PA

Blue Cross, Blue Shield Corporation, Philadelphia, PA

Boston Globe, (News Publication), Boston, MA

Canadian Consul General, Montreal Canada

Comedy Central, New York, NY

CoreStates Financial Corporation, Philadelphia, PA

Dechert, Price & Rhoads Collection, Philadelphia, PA

Enron Collection, Washington, DC

FreddieMac Corporation, Washington, DC

Gilberg Collection, VA

Goodyear Corporation, Washington, DC

IMF (International Monetary Fund), Washington, DC

Jackson National Life, Santa Monica, Calif

Knott Capitol Management, Corp. Headquarters, Exton, PA

Kraft Foods, (P.M, division), Inc., Philadelphia, PA

Mercer Management, Washington, DC

Merck Pharmaceuticals, Philadelphia, PA

Meridian Hotels, Paris, France

Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, NYC

Miles and Stockbridge, Baltimore and Towson MD

Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, Philadelphia, PA

Mosby Publishing Corporation, Philadelphia, PA

NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation), NYC

NFL (National Football League) Corporate Collection, Washington, DC

Panetch, Scharze, Jacobsen & Nadel, Philadelphia, PA

Pew Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Philadelphia, PA

Philip Morris Collection, NYC

RCA (Radio Corporation of America), NJ

Royal Farms Corporation, Baltimore, MD

Subaru Automotive Corporation, Cherry Hill, NJ

Suhag Collection, Delhi, India

TWA, (Transworld Airlines), NYC

United Airlines, (Executive Red Carpet Club), Dulles Airport, VA

White and Williams LLP, Baltimore, MD

United Airlines, Newark, NJ

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Collegeville, PA

The Zenith, Baltimore, MD

Established in 1991, Carrie Haddad Gallery represents mid-career and emerging artists of the Hudson Valley and beyond working in painting, sculpture, mixed media and photography. We organize 7 group exhibits per year in a 3000 square foot gallery space on Hudson's Warren Street.